Stroger Hospital Trauma, Burn and Rehabilitation Unit Renovation

Level-1 delivered advanced IT and network systems for Stroger Hospital’s Trauma, Burn, and Rehabilitation Unit, enhancing critical patient care.

John H. Stroger, Jr. Hospital is a flagship institution within Cook County Health and a nationally recognized level 1 trauma center. It anchors one of the busiest emergency and specialty care systems in the country, serving a population that relies on its advanced trauma, burn, and rehabilitative care services. As part of its mission to modernize and elevate patient care, Cook County Health undertook a major renovation of Stroger’s Trauma, Burn, and Rehabilitation Unit, one of the largest and most specialized of its kind in the United States. 

Level-1 Global Solutions was selected to redesign advanced IT and communications infrastructure for this highly sensitive renovation project, a hospital we originally helped design when it was first built. With decades of experience supporting mission-critical healthcare systems, Level-1’s role was essential in ensuring the unit’s new technologies were seamlessly embedded into the hospital’s operational and clinical environment without interrupting ongoing patient care. 

What We Delivered 

• Design and deployment of structured cabling and fiber-optic infrastructure to support clinical and administrative systems 
• Installation of secure, HIPAA-compliant networks to enable real-time access to electronic medical records (EMRs), imaging systems, and clinical tools 
• Integration of specialized communication systems to support trauma workflows, nurse call, telemetry, and remote diagnostics 
• Environmental and power protection systems designed for uninterrupted uptime in intensive care and surgical environments 
• Collaboration with construction, MEP, and hospital facility teams to meet stringent healthcare infrastructure codes and infection control protocols 
• Customization of IT solutions to serve the unique demands of trauma, burn, and rehabilitative treatment spaces 

The renovation of Stroger Hospital’s Trauma, Burn, and Rehabilitation Unit marked a renewed chapter in Level-1’s longstanding partnership with Cook County Health, which began during the original construction of the Stroger campus. Having played a foundational role in establishing the hospital’s mission-critical infrastructure, Level-1 returned not just to upgrade outdated systems, but to reimagine and reengineer them for the demands of 21st-century care delivering a future-ready technology environment for one of the nation’s most advanced specialty units.